Ecology

Season 13

What does money reveal about desire and self-knowledge, and why speak of a dialectic of matter rather than a dialectic of nature?

Readings on the spot

What does the question "Est-ce ancienne sauvagerie qu'on pardonne ?" mean in Rimbaud's "Mouvement," posed before a young couple in the midst of a hymn to industrial modernity?

Season 13

What is evil, if one starts from Rousseau's distinction between the state of nature and the civil state?

Café marxiste

What is today the dominant element exploiting the Sahelian Africa, and why must it be called imperialism rather than colonialism?

Season 11

What does the world mean, and worldliness in Clouscard's sense, between the happiness of being in the world and the lie of the world that keeps the dominated under the ideology of the dominant?

Season 10

What does Clouscard's quip "there are no vacations in the concept" mean, and how does philosophy make problematic habitual concepts such as "climate disruption" or "the West"?

Season 10

Why does "post-modern" thought, which claims descent from Nietzsche, deify nature and despise equality merely repeat the thesis of Callicles in Plato's Gorgias?

Questions and answers

Is the autonomy claimed today by those who go off to live in nature a freedom or a way of freeing oneself from humanity?

Questions and answers

Should we take up the notions of "red-brown" and "decolonial" produced by dominant ideology, and what is lost when the subject is eliminated in the human sciences?

Questions and answers

Is there a balance in nature that man has come to disturb, or does this idea project the ideology of the market onto nature?

Season 9.2

Under what conditions is a discourse scientific, and how does science turn into scientism when applied to the human world?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

How should the "world after" the Covid crisis be judged, and under what conditions can one still speak of progress?

At the Tropiques bookshop

Is political ecology anything other than the aesthetic surface of dominant liberal ideology?

At the Tropiques bookshop

What does the dominant ecological discourse cover, and why must it be criticized from a Marxist standpoint?

Season 8

What does the confinement of the era reveal, and what form of solidarity, camaraderie or community, allows us to face it?

Introduction to the workshops

What does Angélique de Nerval, reread in light of the Odyssey and the structure of the double carnage, teach us about the passage from Enlightenment happiness to the mal du siècle and about today's illusions?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

Why is money, the most vile thing there is, so close to the sacred, and how can we get out of this religion of money?

At the Tropiques bookshop

How can a book give linear form to Dominique Pagani's oral teaching, and what does this teaching say about the specificity of philosophy, of modernity, and of the question "what must I do"?

Season 5.2

What distinguishes nature from landscape, and how does the beauty of landscape relate to freedom and property?

Season 5.2

How does landscape reach its highest poetic value when the visible setting fades to become an interior landscape?

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What does the collapsologist discourse of Pablo Servigne conceal beneath its scientific appearance?

Season 5.2

Are nature and landscape the same thing, or is landscape merely a surface onto which the subject projects its fantasies?

Other videos

What should be understood by work, and by the right to work, from La Bruyère to Marx, by way of Rousseau and Hegel?

At the Tropiques bookshop

Why must we "repoliticize the political," and what does the debate between Hegel, Marx and Sartre on totality and totalization say?

Season 3

How can we assume the contradiction between the Greek and Christian heritages without falling back into the old counter-revolutionary thought that presents itself as new?

At the Tropiques bookshop

Must we accept the two persistent ideas that make Hegel a totalitarian thinker and condemn dialectic, and what can Hegel contribute to thinking about the present world?

What Is to Be Done?

How can one respond to the question "what is to be done?" through a theoretical detour, and how does Rousseau, between the praise of labor and the praise of idleness, found property, happiness, and the beauty of landscape on praxis?

Season 1

What can I know, and why does empiricism, which puts us in contact with reality, fail to reach truth?

A Philosophical Alphabet

How can one distinguish the imaginary from illusion, and what is the place of the imaginary in creation and in politics?

A Philosophical Alphabet

What is the savage, and is savagery the lowest point of humanity?

A Philosophical Alphabet

What does a quality say, and what are we talking about when we qualify a thing?

A Philosophical Alphabet

Should one be against, with, or "against with": how can opposition be thought without falling into one-sidedness?

A Philosophical Alphabet

In what sense can a philosopher call himself a man of the left?

A Philosophical Alphabet

Are we really in a consumer society, and do we consume too much?

Interviews for L’Affranchi

How does Michel Clouscard link praxis and psyche, and why does he see in May '68 and the ideology of desire a counter-revolution that prepares a neofascism?

On Michel Clouscard

Why does Clouscard criticize "libertarian liberalism," and what becomes of this critique when applied to the state, the societal, and music?

On Michel Clouscard

What does Clouscard's formula "Everything is permitted but nothing is possible" cover, and how does it illuminate so-called consumer society, the Marshall Plan and May 68?